FoundationalConceptsNeuroscience

melanopsin, 234
melatonin, 231-32
memory, 221
Aplysia californica, 228-30
consolidation, 222
declarative, 227
dementia, 223
drugs related to impairment, 223-24
long-term memory (LTM), 222-24, 226, 228, 230, 240
memorizing pi, 220-21
nondeclarative, 227
pathological problems, 223
patient H.M., 225-27
retrieval, 222-23
role of sleep, 239-40
storage, 224-28
synesthesia, 221-22
working memory (WM), 222-23, 225
Mendel, Gregor, 37-38
Mendeleev, Dmitri, 21
meninges, 12
meningitis, 12
mentalism, 259
menthol, 155,272
menthone, 139
meprobamate, 103
Merkel, Friedrich, 187
Merkel’s disks, 187f
mescaline, 110, 113
messenger RNA, 46
metabotropic receptors, 69-71
metaphysics, 258-59
methadone, 106